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The eating instinct : food culture, body image, and guilt in America / by Sole-Smith, Virginia,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Food habits.; Body image.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The body is not an apology : the power of radical self-love / by Taylor, Sonya Renee,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.""To build a world that works for everyone, we must first make the radical decision to love every facet of ourselves. 'The body is not an apology' is the mantra we should all embrace"--Kimberlé Crenshaw, legal scholar and founder and Executive Director, African American Policy Forum"--
Subjects: Self-acceptance.; Self-perception.; Body image.; Human body.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Happy fat : taking up space in a world that wants to shrink you / by Hagen, Sofie,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.In Happy Fat, comedian Sofie Hagen shares how she removed fatphobic influences from her daily life and found self-acceptance in a world where judgment and discrimination are rife. From shame and sex to airplane seats, love and getting stuck in public toilets, Sofie provides practical tips for readers - drawing wisdom from other Fat Liberation champions along the way. Part memoir, part social commentary, Happy Fat is a funny, angry and impassioned look at how taking up space in a culture that is desperate to reduce you can be radical, emboldening and life-changing.
Subjects: Self-help publications.; Hagen, Sofie.; Body image in women.; Self-acceptance.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Bodies are cool / by Feder, Tyler.;
Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text celebrate bodies of all shapes, sizes, ages, and colors, with different kinds of hair, eyes, spots, scars, and more.LSC
Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Human body; Body image; Self-acceptance;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A new model : what confidence, beauty, and power really look like / by Graham, Ashley,author.; Paley, Rebecca,author.;
Subjects: Biographies.; Graham, Ashley.; Models (Persons); Body image.; Body size;
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It's my body / by Gravel, Elise.;
Bodies come in all difference shapes, sizes, colours, and abilities. We all have one, and we all have the right to feel good about it, the responsibility to take care of it, and the duty to set and respect boundaries. From beloved children's author Elise Gravel comes a book all about the body: how to feel good about it and how to take care of it. Endearingly illustrated with Elise's signature quirky monster characters. Gently addresses body autonomy and consent.LSC
Subjects: Body image in children; Children;
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The wisdom of your body : finding healing, wholeness, and connection through embodied living / by McBride, Hillary L.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."An invitation to unlearn the lies about your body that make you feel less-than, and learn to love the home where your life happens. In This Is My Body, clinical therapist and award-winning researcher Dr. Hillary McBride offers a pathway from disconnection to embodied living by making peace with the living, breathing story of who you are. Packed with illuminating research and stories from her work and deeply personal journey of healing from a life-threatening eating disorder, a car wreck the EMTs thought she wouldn't walk away from, and chronic pain, McBride brings meaningful insights to why the relationship with our bodies matters for the quality of our whole lives. A specialist in embodiment practices, McBride shares the truths and tools to embrace the whole of yourself and, in turn, experience your life to the fullest. This book will show you: how to unlearn the lies about your body that hold you back from the life you were meant to live; practices for reclaiming your body--and your life--from stress, trauma, appearance ideals, and the expectations of others; how to access the healing that is written in our very DNA; tools for regulating your emotions through physical awareness. For anyone who has ever felt unsafe, unloved, or insufficient in their own skin, McBride offers a better way toward health and true acceptance. This is the invitation to live a better story with your body, to come home to the gift of yourself and the wholeness that has been there all along."--
Subjects: Body image.; Healing; Mind and body therapies.; Mind and body.; Self-actualization (Psychology);
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Fat talk : parenting in the age of diet culture / by Sole-Smith, Virginia,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids have learned that "fat" is bad. As they get older, kids learn to pursue thinness in order to survive in a world that ties our body size to our value. Multibillion-dollar industries thrive on consumers believing that we don't want to be fat. Our weight-centric medical system pushes "weight loss" as a prescription, while ignoring social determinants of health and reinforcing negative stereotypes about the motives and morals of people in larger bodies. And parents today, having themselves grown up in the confusion of modern diet culture, worry equally about the risks of our kids caring too much about being "thin" and about what happens if our kids are fat. Sole-Smith shows how the reverberations of this messaging and social pressures on young bodies continue well into adulthood--and what we can do to fight them. Fat Talk argues for a reclaiming of "fat," which is not synonymous with "unhealthy," "inactive," or "lazy." Talking to researchers and activists, as well as parents and kids across a broad swath of the country, Sole-Smith lays bare how America's focus on solving the "childhood obesity epidemic" has perpetuated a second crisis of disordered eating and body hatred for kids of all sizes. She exposes our society's internalized fatphobia and elucidates how and why we need to stop "preventing obesity" and start supporting kids in the bodies they have. Continuing conversations started by works like Girls & Sex, Under Pressure, and Essential Labor, Fat Talk is a stirring, deeply researched, and groundbreaking book that will help parents learn to reckon with their own body biases, identify diet culture messaging, and ultimately empower their kids to navigate this challenging landscape. Sole-Smith offers an alternative framework for parenting around food and bodies, and a way for us all to work toward a more weight-inclusive world--because it's not our kids, or their bodies, who need fixing"--
Subjects: Body image in children.; Obesity in children.; Parent and child.; Weight loss;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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This messy magnificent life : a field guide / by Roth, Geneen,author.;
From the beginning, the author was told she was too sensitive, too emotional, too curious, too demanding, too intense, and too big. Yet gaining and losing weight for decades did not improve her self-worth or reduce other people's criticisms. When her struggle with food ended she kept trying to fix other broken parts of herself with therapy, intensive meditation retreats, and rigorous spiritual practices. Yet it was only when the author stopped trying to change or fix herself that she was at last able to feel at home in her mind, body, and life. This book explores the personal beliefs, hidden traumas, and social pressures that shape not just women's feelings about their bodies, but also their confidence, choices, and relationships.
Subjects: Self-help publications.; Body image in women.; Self-perception in women.; Self-realization in women.; Self-acceptance in women.; Women; Mind and body.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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This messy magnificent life [sound recording] : a field guide / by Roth, Geneen,author,narrator.; Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by the author.From the beginning, the author was told she was too sensitive, too emotional, too curious, too demanding, too intense, and too big. Yet gaining and losing weight for decades did not improve her self-worth or reduce other people's criticisms. When her struggle with food ended she kept trying to fix other broken parts of herself with therapy, intensive meditation retreats, and rigorous spiritual practices. Yet it was only when the author stopped trying to change or fix herself that she was at last able to feel at home in her mind, body, and life. This book explores the personal beliefs, hidden traumas, and social pressures that shape not just women's feelings about their bodies, but also their confidence, choices, and relationships.
Subjects: Self-help publications.; Audiobooks.; Body image in women.; Self-perception in women.; Self-realization in women.; Self-acceptance in women.; Women; Mind and body.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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